Brother's Loyalty: Endgame

Don't Feed the Plants

Hey. Is everyone still doing okay?

Yeah.

I'm good.

Doing great. How about you? How are you holding up?

The best I can. But wow—why did this have to happen again?

I don't know. There are just some things that we simply can't control, and they happen. The trick is—moving on from those things.

I—I couldn't save you, and I couldn't save myself, and now Luigi—

Luigi's doing fine. While we're sealed in these portrait frames, we're with him in spirit, guiding him along, keeping him strong. He's done this twice already. It should be a piece of cake by now.

Yeah—a piece of cake. You know—any ordinary people would give up any hope of rescue at this point. But not us. Not us.

...

Pollen tickled Luigi's nose as he stepped out of the elevator, Gooigi and Polterpup behind him. The ensuing sneezing fit soon subsided, however, and he glanced around the room. As far as the eye could see, there was nothing but flora.

"It's beautiful," mused Gooigi, drinking in the various flowers blooming in the Garden Suites.

"It is," conceded Luigi, "in its own eerie way."

"The next elevator button is probably hidden somewhere," said Gooigi.

"Let's get to searching, then," said Luigi.

They moved down the corridor, vacuuming up any vegetation that impeded them, Polterpup briskly trotting between the two. In his usual way, Luigi began humming a tune as he pushed himself forward, and Gooigi soon joined in, the sound lightly resonating through the latter's body. Gooigi took one hand off his Poltergust and rested it on Luigi's forearm. "S'okay," he said quietly. "S'okay. I'm with you."

Humming in sync, they continued working their way down the hall. But just as they reached a door, a snake jumped out of the green grass and pounced on Luigi!

Swearing, Luigi clawed at the snake, trying to pull it off of him. Barking, Polterpup charged forward and seized the snake's tail in his jaws, trying to yank it away from its master. Gooigi used Burst to try and dislodge the snake. Eventually, Luigi gained enough presence of mind to use Burst himself, finally scaring the snake off.

"J—s! Where did that guy come from?!" Luigi demanded of nobody in particular.

He caught his breath and pulled himself together as Gooigi and Polterpup checked him for injuries, the latter licking at the where the snake had latched on.

"The good thing is—that snake wasn't poisonous," said Gooigi.

However, that fact gave Polterpup little comfort.

"Don't worry, puppy," said Luigi. "I'll live."

He gave the ghost dog a quick, comforting pet before the trio walked into a large room.

A large stairway spiraled above them, vines and branches wrapped around the banisters. In front of them was an empty bird bath—with another elevator button hovering over it!